Hello, Iām a user at trust level 2, which grants me 50 (or 75?) reactions in a 24-hour period. Since I tend to read many posts in one session and react to them quite frequently (especially in the Lustige Sachen topic), I quickly run out of my daily reactions, which is a huge bummer and discourages me from staying on the site for long.
However, trust level 3 requires me to visit the forum every other day, which is not feasible as I have many other interests besides OSM that require their time. Plus, there are phases when Iām not OSM-interested at all.
Iād suggest a change in attitude then. This forum is not primarily a social media site where people post things in the hope of getting ālikesā; weāre mainly here to exchange ideas and, together, find solutions for problems we encounter in OSM. Your participation in this is certainly welcome, but the wellbeing of the forum does not require 50 thumbs-up per visit from you. You can read an article without telling the world how you liked it!
Yep, I actually treated the reactions feature in a similar manner to liking videos on YouTube, with the feeling of āsupportingā the content by liking ā¦
P.S.: Ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass Sie Frederik Ramm sind, (zusammen mit Jochen Topf) der Autor des OpenStreetMap-Buches, das ich vor vielen Jahren mal hatte, aber dann verlor ā¦
P.P.S: Wie ist das denn dann, wenn man das Reaktionen-Limit erreicht, dann aber wieder ein paar Reaktionen lƶscht? Wird der ZƤhler der verbrauchten Reaktionen entsprechend heruntergesetzt? / What happens if, when reaching the reactions limit, I delete one or two of them? Does this decrease the counter of reactions used?
Alternatively, is there a technical or philosophical reason not to raise this limit? Seems like a ālikeā is a great way to show support for something without filling up a thread with āI agree with [user]ā type posts.
Another reason why I opened this thread is that I got surprised by the reactions limit (when I reached it). It would be nice if Discourse would display how many reactions are left for today, ideally next to the reactions button:
I suppose, but that comes across like the answer to āI want to participate moreā is ādonāt participate moreā or āclutter discussionsā. Just my $0.02 on the matter.
I could be persuaded either way whether the current limit is a good idea or not, but can perhaps help with the background a bit (based only on previous interactions with Discourse, not as any sort of developer).
Discourse tries to facilitate āgoodā communication between site users. It doesnāt know that itself (itās just a bunch of lines of code), but it can delegate that onto āpeople it trustsā, and it uses various metrics for that, one of which is āvery regular usersā. I donāt know what numbers they based that on, but I can imagine how that could work.
Discourse also seems to rely pretty heavily on upvotes for determining whoās who, and I can see that ādevaluing the currency of votesā might make that harder. For example, regular spammers always try and upvote each other, and any downside from that should be avoided.
Interesting! I was trying to figure out what could be the downsides of increasing the limit of reactions, or how they might get abused, and I can kinda see your point. But that perspective leaves me thinking:
How exactly does an account benefit from having many liked posts? Are they somehow prioritized or given quicker access to higher levels of trust?
Is this kind of abuse of reactions an issue we have ever encountered in this forum? If not, it seems like it might be worth experimenting with raising the limit a bit, since thereās been at least one reported instance (this thread) of it negatively affecting a good faith contributor. (And I do agree that reactions are preferable to agreement posts that donāt add new insight to the discussion.)
topic), I quickly run out of my daily reactions, which is a huge bummer and discourages me from staying on the site for long.
Ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass Sie Frederik Ramm sind, (zusammen mit Jochen Topf) der Autor des OpenStreetMap-Buches, das ich vor vielen Jahren mal hatte, aber dann verlor ā¦
What happens if, when reaching the reactions limit, I delete one or two of them? Does this decrease the counter of reactions used?
